Volunteers Work To Preserve Photos Of WWII Veterans

Associated Press

GREENFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Volunteers in Hancock County are preserving the memory of local soldiers by archiving nearly 1,000 photographs of World War II veterans.

Greenfield employees are donating their time to scan the images that had long been stored in the basement of the Hancock County Memorial Building. They'll be used on a website that will launch later this month.

The photographs were part of 14 shadow boxes that were removed from the memorial building in 2013 and placed in a vault at city hall for safe keeping.

City webmaster Dave Goodrich tells the Daily Reporter that the photos and the stories behind them need to be preserved before the memories are lost.

The first 140 photos will be launched online soon while volunteers continue to archive the remaining photos.

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